RECENT VISITS TO HIS BEATITUDE

On Friday, March 30/April 12, 2024, the following people visited His Beatitude:

The Franciscan Deputy Custodian Fr. Dobromir for work-related issues in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Five volunteers from the Holy Metropolis of Patras with the Hegoumen of the Monastery of the Holy Cross Archimandrite Christodoulos, to help prepare for the feast of the Holy Cross, on the 4th Sunday of Lent.

Ms Marian Loubat, representative of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem to the World Council of Churches in Ghana, Africa, to receive His blessing.

The pilgrim Kalliope Mavragani, whose cassock and request His Beatitude blessed, to serve in the Holy Monastery of the sisters of Lazarus Martha and Mary in Bethany, for the Holy Monastery to emerge as a monastic centre of the Patriarchate with a lively Christian witness in the region of Bethany.

On Saturday, March 31/April 13, 2024, His Beatitude received:

A 50-member group of Orthodox Youth from Zdeide and Baane in northern Israel. He accepted and guided them Pastorally and gave each of them a copy of the New Testament in Arabic.

Afterwards, His Beatitude received Mr. Markon Nirman, to receive the blessing for priesthood, following the decision of the Synod.

From Secretariat-General